nice to hear what sounds like the bare minimum of effort is being put into updating their pro notebooks. or perhaps even less than the bare minimum if they're just going to keep shipping a broken keyboard design. sigh.
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Mac Mini Refresh, New Low-Cost Notebook, Apple Watches With Larger Displays and More Coming This Fall
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OK - I guess what I meant was that a 5K screen is great to work on - I love mine. What I don't want to have to do if I wanted to upgrade to the newer models is be forced to have to go with an 8K screen and the extra cost premium it will command - to me and many, many other users, it's a feature we'll never make proper use of; plus with the extra graphics power it will need to drive it, it would almost be like me buying a Mac Pro now just to use for InDesign and Illustrator. I think what we'd all like to see in an iMac would be Target Disk Mode back again and video input. The screen is too good JUST to be tied to its internals!
The great flaw with AirPods today is not with the AirPods themselves, it is with the device that feeds them audio!
Phone is not ideal because (at least if you're me) I don't carry my phone everywhere, specifically I don't carry it round the house. I drop it off somewhere (charging in the bedroom or whatever) and leave it there, while I move around other rooms, and this works just fine because the Watch handles notifications, and calls route to my iMac anyway.
So how about using the Watch for audio? Ah, well there's the problem, and the problem is that Apple STILL doesn't give a fsck about spoken word audio...
You CAN (painfully) transfer audiobooks to your Watch (in iTunes, mark them as Music not Audiobooks, but also as Remember Playback Position and Skip When Shuffling. Then transfer a playlist of such books to the Phone. Then transfer the playlist to the Watch. And it APPEARS (at first) that this works great. Your watch is always there, sound is great, controls are easy to access.
Problem is (like I said) Apple doesn't give a fsck about spoken word audio. So the Watch just IGNORES the "Remember Playback Position" setting. If your watch is rebooted (eg you install an OS update) it will just forget where you are in your audiobooks playlist, AND will forget where you were in a particular file. And since that stuff was not synced back to your phone or iTunes, you're left scrambling trying to figure out where you were. AND Watch provides no useful mechanism for random access into a file that could be an hour to many hours long...
Basically it's just not worth the hassle.
This could all be fixed so easily. But Eddie Cue apparently only cares about music and meeting Hollywood actresses, and couldn't even be bothered to delegate Spoken Word Audio to someone in Apple who DOES care.
(Back when I worked at Apple and complained about the iPod v1.0 not remembering where you were when listening to Spoken Word, after a reboot, that was fixed about three months after I reported the bug.
Meanwhile we're on watchOS 4.0 and this has STILL not been fixed. Yeah, I'm bitter, and yeah, I blame Eddie Cue.)
From what I've heard, not anytime soon. The initial 10 nm Cannon Lake chips will be small (i.e. dual core with non Iris graphics) low power chips only, so only appropriate for the Macbook. The larger/higher power parts are rumored to perform better on the current 14 nm++ process than their (currently shipping in low volume) 10 nm process so Intel has much more tweaking to do...
What's wrong with bt mouse? I have not used a wired one for years!!
And what's all this obsession with wires anyway?
Does anyone else dislike that all products will now be refreshed in September/October? It makes for a long year waiting on new products.
No, this is a separate model. I've known that this is part of the 'MacBook' lineup, and while I have had no confirmation on the screen size, a less expensive but larger model just doesn't fit into their lineup. As i've said for the past few months, a price cut is to be expected this year.
The 12" MacBook as it is now will go to $999 (or possible $1099). And by 'separate model' I don't mean a separate configuration (although that would make sense).
Well there's always the 9.7" iPad.
In all seriousness, the Mac refreshes were almost always scheduled for Fall this year for a variety of reasons. Not to mention, they needed to show dedication to the Mac, so even if some were ready/could be released earlier this year, releasing them all in a dedicated event would always be more impactful. Their representation from the media will also be significant, at the cost of a 'short term' period of the media bashing Apple for the situation with the Mac. Part of that is also a lack of research, but anyway i've gone off track.
Almost every product update this year is significant so I think it will be worth the wait.
they should just align the product line ...
iPhone*
iPhone X (entry with less storage to push upselling)
IPhone X Plus
*milk it as long as possible and get people who always want the latest and greatest out of principle to pay extra $$ (from a Customer point of view it is nothing I remotely agree with)
iPad (entry with less storage to push upselling)
iPad Pro
MacBook (entry with less storage to push upselling)
MacBook Pro
iMac
iMac Pro
Mac Mini
Mac Pro
iPhone*
iPhone X (entry with less storage to push upselling)
IPhone X Plus
*milk it as long as possible and get people who always want the latest and greatest out of principle to pay extra $$ (from a Customer point of view it is nothing I remotely agree with)
iPad (entry with less storage to push upselling)
iPad Pro
MacBook (entry with less storage to push upselling)
MacBook Pro
iMac
iMac Pro
Mac Mini
Mac Pro
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'The new Mac Mini is certainly comming'
The comment I've been waiting to read in this thread.
The comment I've been waiting to read in this thread.
I think the more likely scenario is they start offering Vega chips on a standard iMac with 5K display. I don't see the entire iMac product line going 8K. Likely just a 3rd tier of iMac that essentially replaces the iMac Pro once the Mac Pro is finally released.
I want an iMac with better cooling, a 6-core i7 processor, a good video card, and all flash NVME storage without an option for a traditional HD.
I don't really care about 8K iMac. I would love to see HDR, ProMotion, or both. (Or just better uniformity/consistency across the panel frankly.)
The MacBook was obviously created in anticipation of 10 nm processors that would be faster & cooler - and would sell in higher volumes and thus lower prices - than what’s now available for Apple to use.
For that reason it’s time to give the MacBook a rest. It’s a lovely computer but horribly overpriced for what it is.
I wouldn't count on an iMac update happening in 2018.
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The existing model's bezels are fine.
hi
these are diagonal screen dimensions.
for example, current 2017 model of iPhone X:
Height is 5.65 inches (143.6 MM)
But the screen dimension is 5.8-inch (diagonal)
thanks
Tim runs Apple. No one will be equal to him within Apple. They also won't split off any of their products into their own company. That would be useless.
Finally? They've improved the screen like the last two releases?
[*]Mac mini - Kuo didn't have a lot of information to share on the Mac mini, but he says a processor upgrade is expected. The Mac mini has not been updated for more than 1,300 days, aka over 3 and a half years. It's not clear if additional upgrades will be included, such as a redesigned chassis, but at least some kind of refresh is on the horizon.
Can you imagine if the MacMini came with a top that is capable of charging your iphone and Watch...?